Difficult New Graduate Nurse Year

I’d love to find out how our graduates are finding things in their first year out. Likewise, how are seasoned RN’s finding our new graduates? One of the more common questions that seems to arise with nursing students, particularly in their last year, is whether it’s better to obtain a position in a grad year [...]

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Job security luring more students into nursing

credit: Shermeee Job security has always been a great factor of nursing. In my experiences on the job, it’s pretty rare that a nurse gets fired – you basically have to be grossly incompetent, breach some serious code of conduct or be solely responsible for some dire situation that occurred. This is not to say [...]

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What makes a nursing student stand out

From time to time I have nursing students tail me for two, three, five week or longer blocks. photo credit: b a r t These are people at varying stages of their studies, but mostly are second or third year students. While it holds true that there are a lot of factors that make up [...]

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Is nursing any good?!

So, to start on a positive note (heh) credit: chrome76 I thought I’d do up a quick list on some of the things I do like about nursing (to be honest, there have been many, many times where I have questioned my sanity for entering the profession!) There definitely are some good things about nursing [...]

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My experience of starting nursing

It’s a tough, life changing decision whether or not to get into the nursing profession. credit: Random Ideal In fact, when I first considered studying nursing, I really didn’t have any intention of following through and making it a career…! After finishing school I wasn’t really sure what I wanted to do, but had a [...]

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